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Also by Joy Preble:

It Wasn't Always Like This, May 2016
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The A-Word, May 2014
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The Sweet Dead Life, May 2013
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Dreaming Anastasia, September 2009
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It Wasn't Always Like This
Joy Preble

Soho Teen
May 2016
On Sale: May 17, 2016
Featuring: Charlie Ryan; Emma O’Neill
256 pages
ISBN: 1616955880
EAN: 9781616955885
Kindle: B014BQVMQE
Paperback / e-Book
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Young Adult Science Fiction

In 1916, Emma O’Neill is frozen in time. After sampling an experimental polio vaccine brewed on a remote island off St. Augustine, Florida, she and her family stop aging—as do the Ryans, her family’s business partners. In a way, this suits Emma fine because she’s in love with Charlie Ryan. Being seventeen forever with him is a dream. But soon a group of religious fanatics, the Church of Light, takes note. Drinking the elixir has made the O’Neills and Ryans impervious to aging, but not to murder. When their families are massacred, Emma and Charlie are the only ones who escape with their lives. On the run, Emma is tragically separated from Charlie. For the next hundred years, she plays a cat-and-mouse game with the Church of Light and their descendants. She becomes a private investigator when a series of murders—whose victims all bear more than a passing resemblance to her—indicate that her enemies are closing in. Yet as the danger grows, so does Emma’s hope for finding the boy she’s certain is still out there . . .

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